Meryl streep

Born in 1951, in New Jersey, Mary Louise Streep was the eldest of three children in a wealthy family. She discovered that she was in her element on stage, when she was chosen at the age of eight to play a school play. Apparently she was a very active girl. “At school I ran for everything, for delegate, for the student council, for treasurer, but I never won anything, until I dyed my hair blonde and was elected beauty queen,” recalls the actress. While she was studying at the institute, she drew the attention of her classmates, with her performances in the theater group, so it was always very clear to her that she was destined to study acting. He ended up enrolling in this specialty at Yale University. When he finished, he did not lack works on the tables on Broadway, and even earned a Tony nomination, the most prestigious theater award. His trajectory to stardom was atypical, because asBruce Willis and Jeremy Irons cemented their prestige on television, as the wife of a Jew persecuted by the Nazis in the Holocaust series , a role for which she received an Emmy in 1978. Although she had made her film debut as a secondary, in a couple of sequences from Julia , by the hand of Fred Zinnemann , began to stand out with The Hunter , for which she obtained her first Oscar nomination. During filming she fell in love with one of her film partners, John Cazale , who played Fredo Corleone in The Godfather ., with whom she was romantically linked until the premature death of the actor, suffering from cancer, in 1978. After this unfortunate episode, the actress married the sculptor Don Gummer, father of her four children, with whom she lives on a quiet remote country farm from the tinsel of Hollywood glamour.

Despite her marital stability, Meryl Streep began to stand out playing on-screen ex-wives of dubious moral character, the one who had dumped Woody Allen for another woman in Manhattan , and the Machiavellian Kramer vs. Kramer wife , for whom won the Oscar for best secondary. A second statuette would arrive shortly after her, as the protagonist of Sophie’s decision . She highlights her work in  The French Lieutenant’s Woman , where she had a double role, as she played the actress and her character, a melancholic woman. Typecast in the drama, Streep would be the queen of the genre in the 80s, monopolizing roles as rich as the humble worker of a nuclear power plant, in Silkwood, a married art designer who finds herself attracted to an architect she crosses on the train in Falling in Love , alcoholic drifter in Iron Stem , and her roundest role, Danish writer Isak Dinensen, who used the pen name Karen Blixen , in Out of Africa . With very few flops, such as the sitcom Life and Love of a Devil , and such a solid career, she became a role model for aspiring young actresses. “It seems positive to me that they take me as an inspiration. I myself also needed to be inspired by other actresses when I was young, ”said the interpreter.

The script for Postcards from the Edge revolved around actresses with problems , based on the memoirs of Carrie Fisher , where she was an actress addicted to drugs, overshadowed by her mother’s fame. The actress was disenchanted with the world of cinema with the arrival of the 90s. “Suddenly, it was not enough to have talent. Young girls had to take on the role of sex symbol. I surely would never have done that”, said the actress, who was going through serious doubts at times: “Sometimes I want to throw everything overboard. Luckily my husband encourages me to keep going.”

She raised her voice to denounce the lack of interesting roles in Hollywood for actresses over 40, but the truth is that the few that were were awarded to her, or to Susan Sarandon . She continued determined to prove her worth for all genres, trying her luck with comedy ( Heaven Coming Soon , Death suits you so well ), thriller ( Rio Savage ) and even magical realism ( The House of the Spirits ) . . Still, the best of the period is a drama with some comic element ( Marvin’s Room ), a biographical drama ( Music of the Heart ), a choral drama ( Things That Matter) and a gritty romantic drama: The Bridges of Madison . The great repercussion of Clint Eastwood ‘s film led Meryl Streep to maintain her status as a star who is served on a tray, like Clarissa, an editor who dedicated her life to taking care of her former lover, sick with AIDS, in The Hours. . In recent years, he has strived to find new ground in family cinema ( Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events ), fantastic thriller ( The Messenger of Fear ), surrealism ( Adaptation. The Orchid Thief ) and hilarious comedy. ( Shared Secrets , The Devil Wears Prada). She even dares with a musical, as she will star in Mamma Mia when the filming of Lions for Lambs ends , a drama directed and played by Robert Redford , her partner in Out of Africa .